Vehicle-wheel



GfLAUBE.

VEHICLE WHEEL.

(No Model.)

Patented J-uly'ZS, 1895.

1 A M y UNITED STATES: PATENT 'GFFICE.

GODFRIED LAUBF, OF HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH HYMANS, OF'DEL RIO, TEXAS.

VEHICLE-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,311, dated July 23, 1895.

- Application filed March 24, 189i. Serial No. 604,913- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- formed apertures of the folly or tire a The Be it known that I, GODFRIED LAUBE, a citiinner portions 11 of the wires preferably dizen of the United States of America, residing verge for attachment to the hub-disks a a at Huron, in the county of Beadle and State which may be effected in any well-known V 5 of South Dakota, have invented certain new manner. v

and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Wheels, From the foregoing it will be obvious that of which the following is aspecification,referby reason of the projecting portions b b of encebeinghadto theaccompanyingdrawings. each spoke the tread may be broadened to This'invention relates to certain new and any desired extent and without materially 6:)

[O useful improvements in wheels, and particuincreasing the cost of manufacture or prelarly to that class employed in childrens carsenting an awkward or ungainly appearance. riages. Referring to Fig. 2, wherein a slightly-modi- Heretofore it has been customary to employ fied form of spoke is illustrated, B denotes a double-telly wheel on vehicles of the class the spoke proper, which is formed, as in the :5 aforesaid for the purpose of broadening the first instance, of duplicate wires b'b', twisted tread thereof sufficiently to prevent the wheels together at b", and with the lower extremities falling into cracks 'between boards of board diverging and adapted for attachmentto the walks, such as are common in the suburbs or hub, as above described. The upper extremirural districts. 7 ties b" 5", however, are bent outwardly in 7 20 This invention contemplates the provision opposite directions, then downwardly, and of a novel form of spoke to be used with a given an approximately semicircular form, single-felly wheel and of such peculiar conwith the terminals, when secured to the telly struction as to possess all the advantages of or tire, in practically perfect alignment with a double-telly wheel. the twisted portion, as indicated by dotted 2 5 A further object is to employa simple and lines. Thus it will be observed that bya slight inexpensive construction that shall prove change from the form shown in Fig. 1 the strong, durable, and thoroughly efficient in portions or guards projecting at each side of use. the telly are given a certain amount of elas- With these and other objects in view vaticity and are capable of absorbing slight 8o 1 o rious combinations and arrangements are shocks without transmitting the jar to the employed, which will be hereinafter more vehicle-body. fully set forth, and specifically pointed out It will be understood that I do not wish to in the annexed claim. confine'myself to the exact construction here In describing the invention indetail referin shown and described, as various detail 3 5 once is had to the accompanying drawings, changes may be made Without necessarilydeforming part of the specification, wherein parting from the meaning of the present in similar letters of reference indicate correvention. sponding parts in both views, in which Having fully described my invention, what Figure l is a view in perspective showing I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 0 40 a wheel provided with my improved spoke. Patent, is l Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modified form of Avehicle Wheel having spokes composed of spoke. duplicate wires twisted together with diverg- In the drawings, A denotes a common form ing extremities, which are bent inwardly near of metallic wheel, a the hub, and B the the folly to form shoulders, substantially as 5 5 spokes. Each spoke is formed of duplicate described. wires b b, which are twisted together at b In testimony whereof I affix my signature with the extremities. diverging. These diin presence of two witnesses.

verging extremitiesnear the folly are bent GODFRIED LAUBE. inwardly substantially at right angles to the Witnesses:

50 length of the spoke proper, with the termi- ANNIE T. LAUBE,

nals thereof turned up to engage suitably- HATTIE ROSE LAUBE. 

